Mar 25, 1948
103 min
Full-HD

Big City (1948)

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

Margaret O'Brien

Midge

Robert Preston

Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

Danny Thomas

Cantor David Irwin Feldman

George Murphy

Patrick O'Donnell

Karin Booth

Florence Bartlett

Edward Arnold

Judge Martin O. Abercrombie

Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins

Louis Keller

Betty Garrett

Shoo Shoo Grady

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